Multi-Pup

[coral_sandhu]

In one corner of the bar, Coral and Fry have been industriously working on a new game, using some pictures of their friends that they got from the bar*.





The contents of the cards have been subject to heated debate between the two of them over the afternoon, as they tried to decide who should get more points. But eventually Coral reasoned that they couldn't give everyone 10/10 for everything or the game wouldn't work, and after that Fry did the writing and they got it sorted.

Currently they are in the middle of an experimental first game.

"Can you beat attack 9?" Fry asks.

"No." Coral shakes her head. "I've got Daddy." she hands her card over and they start again.

[*On the grounds that their friends might shout at them less when they find out]

Comments

[a1enzo]

"Hey! What're you playing?"

[coral_sandhu]

"Hi Enzo!" Coral looks up. "We made a game called Millibattles."

[a1enzo]

"Alphanumeric! How's it work?"

[coral_sandhu]

"It's like trumps." Coral says. "You have to try and beat someone's score in different things."

"But we're not calling it trumps because trump means a scary man with bad hair now." Fry adds.

[a1enzo]

"Your world's got one of him, too, huh?"

Dani's sister-in-law Sam, the liberalest liberal who ever liberaled, is campaigning so hard for Sanders that Danny is hard pressed to make sure she eats and sleeps.

[coral_sandhu]

"Yes. In England trump also means to do a big bottom burp." Coral says.

[a1enzo]

Enzo snickers. "Makes sense to me. So what're the card stats?"

[coral_sandhu]

"We made them up." Coral says. "But we couldn't make them all the same or the game wouldn't work."

[a1enzo]

"Right, obviously." Enzo bends down to look closer at the cards. "Fluffiness?"

[bigarmy_strangepants]

Ragnar doesn't even know what cards are.

He is watching the Sandhu kids, quietly trying to figure out what they are doing.

[coral_sandhu]

"Can you beat 8 fluffiness?" Fry asks Coral.

"I've got 8 too." Coral says. "What do we do now?"

"Put them both to the back and carry on?" Fry suggests.

[bigarmy_strangepants]

Eight fluffy what?

This game is quite mysterious. But perhaps that is what happens when all the children learn to read and write and count?

[coral_sandhu]

"Hey, are you counting cards?" Coral demands suddenly.

"Of course, aren't you?" Fry replies.

"Yes. We need more cards." Coral declares.

"That won't stop me."

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"Why shouldn't you count them?" Ragnar asks, increasingly puzzled by it all.

[coral_sandhu]

"Because then you'll know all the answers." Coral says. "We should shuffle them every three goes."

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"Thwew are answers in those bits of paper?"

[coral_sandhu]

"Kind of, more like points." Fry says. "But if you know what points the other person has you can beat them by picking the right category."

Coral nods. "If you remember the numbers and what order."

[runningred]

Jay watches them play for a bit, smiling as he glimpses the cards. He comes over with a tray of hot chocolates for them. "You two look like you're having fun?"

[coral_sandhu]

"It's just a phototype." Coral says. "I think we need more cards because we both keep counting cards."

[runningred]

"Maybe you need to borrow a camera and make some more? I'm sure people wouldn't mind. If you stick to the nice people anyway." They're both smart enough to know who to steer clear of.

[coral_sandhu]

"Do you think they'll mind what score we give them?" Coral asks.

[runningred]

"Not if they understand it's for a game." Jay shrugs. "Most people are pretty reasonable if you explain why you're making the cards. May I have a look at mine?"

[coral_sandhu]

Coral hands it over.

"You're not cross are you?"

[runningred]

"Not at all." He assures them softly. "I think you're absolutely right about the fight stats. X and I have sparred a few times and she wiped the floor with me. Teja and I have never tried each other out and Rae and I are pretty evenly matched. Her magic gives her a serious edge."

[coral_sandhu]

"Maybe we should have had points for magicness." Coral says.

"I don't think it's called magicness." Fry says.